Friday, April 13, 2012

Lesson 6 Mango Languages

A helpful feature of Mango Languages is the Translation Tool.  To use this tool, select the Translate tab after logging in to Mango Languages.  Select a Source and Target language from the 38 languages available and copy the text you want translated into the Source language box.  Click the Translate button and the "gist" of the conversation will be translated into the Target language box using Google translation engine.  Mango indicates that this feature "is not a substitute for human translations."

I like the translate feature because it allows the language learner to understand conversations that may be beyond their current abilities or in a language not being studied.